The European Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for national teams, currently held biannually and there are both men's and women's competitions. This tournament is based on the men's tournament to celebrate the success of Estonian men's volleyball national team who now has qualified for the second time in a row to be part of the competition where top 16 European teams decide the best European country in volleyball. This tournament is based on The 2011 Men's European Volleyball Championship which was co-hosted by Austria and Czech Republic. Yes, it's a bit late but I did not have time to run this before, even though I prepared the whole tournament several months ago.

Preliminary round consists of 4 pools of 4 nations (16 teams overall) where every team plays each other once (3 matches overall). Top 2 teams from each pool advance to championship bracket;

Each match consists of up to 5 sets (i.e. CC games) that will be played one at a time until first team reaches 3 wins;

Advancement is decided by points earned; tie situations will be broke by the sets' win-loss ratio (=won sets/lost sets);

Winning a match gives 2 points, losing a match 1 point;

Championship round will consist of quarterfinals (4 matches), semifinals (2 matches) and finals (1st and 3rd place matches). It's a simple best of 5 bracket where match ends when first team reaches 3 set wins;

Winning team of the final match is declared winner of the tournament.

How to sign up?

Just post to this thread that you wish in with an available country from the list below. If you pick a country already picked then I will assign you to one randomly. Simple as that!

Notes

I'm the Goddess of this tournament and my word is the law that tries to be fair to everybody participating. I take myself the right to make changes in the tournament if I find it in the best interest of it;

If you wish to drop out from the tournament then be polite - let me know about it;

If the time given to join the games is not enough for you then let me know about it so we could work on a solution;

Questions? Comments? Please post them to this topic. If it's urgent then send me a private message;

Notification List. I'm keeping a list of players who are interested in my tournaments and they are notified through a private message ~48 hours after I post a new tournament. If you wish to be part of the list then send me a message with the words "Notification List" in the subject line.

Pirlo, thanks. Didn't plan to run any new tournaments but I found from my harddrive that I had prepared these tournaments several months ago (including scoreboards) so I couldn't waste what I had done before and just had to run this volleyball series.

elmerfudd is looking for a partner, sign up with him!

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